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Google Cloud launched a new document format — Open Knowledge Format (OKF) — that converts enterprise documentation into structured Markdown files designed specifically for AI agents to consume. Instead of making agents scrape HTML pages or parse PDFs, OKF gives them clean, structured text they can r
Meta has started dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, the general-purpose AI agent, after Beijing ordered the deal reversed, TechCrunch reported. The forced unwind reshuffles the agent market: Manus is one of the few commercially deployed general-purpose agents, and its uncertain ownersh
The US government directed Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide — the first time Washington has ordered a major AI company to pull a deployed model at global scale. Anthropic pushed back publicly, calling the decision overkill for what it described as a "narro
OpenAI announced plans to acquire Ona, a startup building secure persistent cloud development environments, explicitly to extend Codex with the ability to run long-duration autonomous AI agent workflows inside enterprise-grade sandboxed environments. The acquisition is OpenAI's clearest signal that
Google's NotebookLM launched a "cloud computer" feature that lets users run code and conduct agent-based research inside the platform — a direct expansion of the tool from a note-taking assistant into an autonomous research agent capable of executing computations and chaining together multi-step inv
Anthropic kicked off the biggest product day of the year so far with the release of Claude Fable 5, the first Mythos-class model open to the general public. The model delivers dramatic gains in coding and scientific reasoning — and it arrives with guardrails that block responses in cybersecurity and
Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote delivered the most aggressive agent pivot in consumer tech this year: Siri is no longer a voice assistant — it is now "Siri AI," a full-blown autonomous agent with its own dedicated app, camera vision, cross-app orchestration, and a developer framework called Core AI. The c
In the most significant product signal since ChatGPT's launch, a senior OpenAI employee publicly declared "Chat is dead" as the company outlines plans to fundamentally rebuild ChatGPT from a conversational interface into a full-blown autonomous agent platform. The explicit message — confirmed across
The AI agent ecosystem delivered a remarkable density of product, protocol, and governance news over the past 24 hours. Three threads stand out. First, the **agent protocol layer is maturing**: the Universal Memory Protocol proposes a shared format for persistent agent memory — potentially as founda
The AI agent landscape saw a significant convergence of governance, security, and product news today. Three major threads emerge from this data batch: first, the security community is grappling with real-world agent exploitation — Meta's AI customer support agent was weaponized for Instagram account
